Celebrating Bodhi Day (December 8), the Day of the Siddhartha Gautama’s Awakening

“My heart, thus knowing, thus seeing, was released from the fermentation of sensuality, released from the fermentation of becoming, released from the fermentation of ignorance. With release, there was the knowledge, ‘Released.’ I discerned that ‘Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world.’ “

SARANAI!

May the serenity of the Buddha be yours!

Photo credit: Thanks to the curator of The Buddha Gallery for this contribution in honor of Bodhi Day. This rare and exquisite 17th or possibly 18th Century Burmese Buddha is in a style of the late Ava/Early Shan.